Riley Wignall

  • Fringe Arts

    C is for Cookie

    If you’re looking to shake off the winter chill, there are few things that usually do the trick. For starters, a steaming mug of hot chocolate, a chewy chocolate chip cookie and a good old push for challenging and changing industry norms—at least, according to Pixelles, a Montreal-based non-profit with its sights set on empowering women interested in game development.

  • Opinions

    Mental Squeeze

    I didn’t have plans to kill myself when I walked into Concordia Health Services three weeks ago—but I was having difficulty coping with being alive.

  • Opinions

    Nah’msayin?

    Montreal, I’m begging you to get out of my way.

  • Fringe Arts

    Reality’s Bytes

    In 1992, film critic Roger Ebert wrote an essay titled, “The Chilling Film Concept of Virtual Reality,” expressing anxieties about the ‘technical and ethical’ implications of submerging a live audience into a virtual world.

  • Fringe Arts

    Plenty in the Twenties

    Montreal is about to go up in flames. As November temperatures drop, local production company Cirquantique is turning up the heat with a performance show so tantalizing, it ought to be prohibited.

  • Fringe Arts

    Spins

    Rah Rah originally formed as a trio in 2007 and quickly grew into an indie rock sextet. They may be the best thing to come out of Regina, Saskatchewan, ever.